Translation, with omissions, of the author's Histoire générale des drogues. The anonymous translator and editor has drawn upon the works of Tournefort and Lémery, and has added to Pomet's descriptions and history of each drug that of Lémery, as extracted from his Traité universel des drogues simples. cf. Dedication and pref
"Names of the authors quoted in this work": p. [13]-[19]
"A catalogue of seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands": p. [21]-[24]
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Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708; Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715. Traité universel des drogues simples